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The model comprehensively utilizes the image restoration and style transfer capabilities of the attention mechanism and the cycle consistency adversarial network, and introduces an improved attention module, which can adaptively highlight the key visual elements in the illustration, thereby maintaining artistic integrity during the style transfer process. Through a series of quantitative and qualitative experiments, high-quality style transfer is achieved, especially while retaining the original features of the illustration. The results show that when running on the Monet2photo dataset, when the system iterates to 72 times, the loss function value of the research method approaches the target value of 0.00. On the Horse2zebra dataset, as the sample size increases, the research method has the smallest FID value, and the value approaches 40.00 infinitely. With the change of peak signal-to-noise ratio, the accuracy of the research algorithm has been greater than 95.00%. Practical application found that the color of the image obtained by the research method is more gorgeous and the line features are more obvious. 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